Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

David Thomas

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Jodi Picoult

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Gerald Scarfe

Blame is safer than praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&ampB.

Willie Nelson

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great thinkers have thought and written on the deepest problems of life, shall we not hear and enjoy? The future calls upon us to prepare its way. Dare we fail to answer its solemn summons?

Felix Adler

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Kevin Mitnick

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Helen Rowland

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

J.K. Rowling

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Dawn French